CVE-2021-24745

PoC —

CVSS 3.1

5.4 medium

EPSS

<1%p47

Published

Nov 29, 2021 (Nov 29, 2021)

Modified

Jun 17, 2026

Description

The About Author Box WordPress plugin before 1.0.2 does not sanitise and escape the Social Profiles field values before outputting them in attributes, which could allow user with a role as low as contributor to perform Cross-Site Scripting attacks.

Vendors: wpkube
Products: about author box
Ecosystems: WordPress
Weakness: CWE-79
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

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